23 Apr
1998
23 Apr
'98
3:53 p.m.
Anyone want to buy an Osborne 1 for $1000? Didn't think so. However, if
you're interested in trying to talk this guy down to reality, I have the
contact info.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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23 Apr
23 Apr
7:17 p.m.
At 12:53 4/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
Anyone want to buy an Osborne 1 for $1000? Didn't
think so. However, if
you're interested in trying to talk this guy down to reality, I have the
contact info.
One of the original demo/proto Oz Ones with a metal case (of which Gale
Rhoades once said there were about a dozen) went for $1000 -- IIRC -- on
Onsale a couple of years ago. Not an ordinary one, no, but we have to be
sure what the dude's got.
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7:33 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Kip Crosby wrote:
At 12:53 4/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
His has a serial number in the 143,000 range so I doubt there's anything
special about it unless it has Jimmy Hoffa's left pinky inside or
something.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Anyone want to buy an Osborne 1 for $1000?
Didn't think so. However, if
you're interested in trying to talk this guy down to reality, I have the
contact info.
One of the original demo/proto Oz Ones with a metal case (of which Gale
Rhoades once said there were about a dozen) went for $1000 -- IIRC -- on
Onsale a couple of years ago. Not an ordinary one, no, but we have to be
sure what the dude's got. 
9:23 p.m.
Speaking of CP/M boxen for sale, I just stopped by Halted in Sunnyvale and
they have a few very clean CP/M machines (with plenty of docs and
software) for $50 each:
* TRS-80 Mod 3 w/printer and no docs (that I could see).
* TRS-80 Mod 4 w/complete docs.
* Epson QX-10 with docs and a QX-PC board to run MS-DOS.
-- Doug
11:39 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
Speaking of CP/M boxen for sale, I just stopped by Halted in Sunnyvale and
they have a few very clean CP/M machines (with plenty of docs and
software) for $50 each:
* TRS-80 Mod 3 w/printer and no docs (that I could see).
A TRS-80 Model 3 runs CP/M only with extensive modifications. The
easiest such modification was the Model 4 upgrade several years
later entailing a motherboard replacement (and no, you didn't get to
keep the old parts).
* TRS-80 Mod 4 w/complete docs.
That one runs CP/M straight, preferably the 3.0 version with a boot
disk for it.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
24 Apr
24 Apr
9:51 a.m.
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
A TRS-80 Model 3 runs CP/M only with extensive
modifications. The
easiest such modification was the Model 4 upgrade several years
later entailing a motherboard replacement (and no, you didn't get to
keep the old parts).
Actually, the only requirement for the original motherboard was that the
service shop had to drill a hole through it. (Size may have been
specified, I don't know.) In any case, I have several M3 motherboards
with a hole drilled through a ground plane. (And still quite functional.)
Ward Griffiths
ttyl
srw
11:27 a.m.
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Didn't Pickles&Trout make a CP/M (or CP/M-like) OS for the Model III?
Marvin would know this.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Speaking of
CP/M boxen for sale, I just stopped by Halted in Sunnyvale and
they have a few very clean CP/M machines (with plenty of docs and
software) for $50 each:
* TRS-80 Mod 3 w/printer and no docs (that I could see).
A TRS-80 Model 3 runs CP/M only with extensive modifications. The
easiest such modification was the Model 4 upgrade several years
later entailing a motherboard replacement (and no, you didn't get to
keep the old parts).
7:49 p.m.
Sam Ismail wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Didn't Pickles&Trout make a CP/M (or CP/M-like) OS for the Model III?
Marvin would know this.
Far as I recall, P&T never did a port for any of the Tandy 5.25"
machines -- just the 2/16/12/6000 series. A good job they did on
those, far superior (to this Tandy tech support guy) to that thing
Lifeboat put out. They didn't do one for the Mod 4 since CP/M 3
was announced for the Mod 4 when the Mod 4 was announced (though
there were a few months delay in shipping the package).
Any CP/M for the Mod 3 would have required a hardware change (as in
the Montezuma Micro upgrade for the Mod One) to put RAM in the area
occupied by the BASIC ROM(s).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Speaking
of CP/M boxen for sale, I just stopped by Halted in Sunnyvale and
they have a few very clean CP/M machines (with plenty of docs and
software) for $50 each:
* TRS-80 Mod 3 w/printer and no docs (that I could see).
A TRS-80 Model 3 runs CP/M only with extensive modifications. The
easiest such modification was the Model 4 upgrade several years
later entailing a motherboard replacement (and no, you didn't get to
keep the old parts). 
8:46 p.m.
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